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Friday, January 24, 2014

Make a Swatch Book for Your Stencil Techniques !

Hello Dear Friends:
I am organizing my craft room, quite a task!!! But I am getting there...and I decided to share with you all how I organize my Stamping Techniques...

and here it is my recent addition, ...my Swatch Book for my Stencil Techniques!!! made in a "Butterfly Swatch Book"!!

I have 3 swatch books with the main techniques that I know so far...

At the beginning, I started sampling my stamping techniques in small rectangles ... (image on the left)

Then, when I took Tim Holtz Chemistry Classes I decided to follow his way of displaying and organizing each technique taught in class in Manila Tags # 8

And lately with the new release of "Memory Box" stencils I decided to start a "Swatch Book" for all the stencil techniques that I know and make it more pretty...so I decided to use this Butterfly die (Maribelle and Selena Butterflies).

I hang them from "Ball Chains" or "Swivel Clasp" from Tim Holtz embellishments ...

I do first the technique on a piece of cardstock, then I die cut it with the Butterfly die ...
Each wing has a different technique...

Up to now, these are the ones that I have done... with sprays, pastes, beads, embossing powders, inks etc (you can have an idea of what I have used from the 1st photo of this post)...

I have to include 3 more techniques that I have not had the time to include them in this swatch book...but until now (as far as I know), there are like 10 or so different techniques that you can use with your stencils...!
I will be introducing them to you little by little..in some other posts... so keep on the look for them!

Ok my friends I hope I could give you some ideas on how to organized your techniques and next time that you will need them you just have to look at your pretty Swatch Books...
Wishing you a nice day and see you soon...

25 comments:

I like your idea... I've made embosing rings like this of each of my embossing folders,it really comes in handy... and I've also used it for my border punches and corner punches too.... that one I really use alot....

Fantastic idea! I really need to make some books for reference. There is nothing worse than being in your craft space/and having mojo to create and go brain dead because you can't remember how you did it the last time. Then you waste time going online to find out where you discovered that great technique. Thanks for sharing and I love the butterfly shape.

Hello my ever so Talented Friend all those techniques are truly breath taking how many different ones, and each one a Fantastic piece of art, HAT"S OFF to you my dear, you were born to be a designer, teacher, I'm blessed to have found you in this big old world, have a wonderful weekend, ((( BIG HUGS ))), oh by the way I HAD to facebook this AMAZING work...

What a great idea Bibiana, and it looks fab too, it's so easy to by-pass fab techniques when there are so many cool things to try, so this is a fab way to revisit favourites and keep on track of them! Thank you for sharing this idea, I hope you don't mind me pinching the idea? If I ever get around to it, I'll give you the mention! Xx Zoe xx

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!...AND Thank you for taking the time to comment on my post today...It keeps me motivated! If you have any questions please feel free to contact me, I will be more than happy to answer them.THANKS again, Bibiana

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About Me

Hi, I'm Bibiana & I love to share my passion of card making with all of you. My formal training is in languages; when I discovered the world of rubber stamping, I passionately and deeply fell in LOVE!...I started collecting, learning and right away I found myself teaching card making... Not long after, the urge to share this passion, with a wider audience, became more present and my personal Blog "Stamping with Bibiana" came to life... My posts, showcase cards, paper crafts projects or ideas that I make for my personal use, that I find pretty and/or that I design for various Craft companies. Besides, being currently in "Memory Box" DT, I also, run their foreign language Blogs. I am as well a Guest Tutorial Designer @ Various Online Sites. Finally, I created and host the monthly "Artsy CraftsyThrowback Thursday" Challenge! I hope that you will find something inspiring! Thank you so much for taking the time to read, visit my blogs and look at my creations! Bibiana